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Special Section: Multilingualism in Ukraine

Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko: Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism

Taras Koznarsky: The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych

Myroslav Shkandrij: Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature

Laada Bilaniuk: Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation-Building on the Self

Vitaly Chernetsky: Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges of Multilingualism: From the 1930s to the Present

Iryna Shuvalova: “I Will Understand You, Brother, Just Like You Will Understand
Me”: Multilingualism in the Songs of the War in Donbas

Reports:

Olenka Bilash: Multilingualism in the Academy: Language Dynamics in Ukraine’s Higher Education Institutions

Alina Zubkovych: Language Use among Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: Context and Practice

Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN III

Andreas Umland, Yuliya Yurchuk: Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and European Fascism During World War II

Kai Struve: The OUN(b), the Germans, and Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Galicia during Summer 1941

Yuri Radchenko: The Biography of the OUN(m) Activist Oleksa Babii in the Light of His “Memoirs on Escaping Execution” (1942)

Tomislav Dulić, Goran Miljan: The Ustašas and Fascism: “Abolitionism,” Revolution, and Ideology (1929–42)

Reviews

Olga Khabibulina on:

Ksenia Maksimovtsova, Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine: A Comparative Exploration of Discourses in Post-Soviet Russian-Language Digital Media

Olena Nedozhogina on:

Mariёlle Wijermars and Katja Lehtisaari (eds.), Freedom of Expression in Russia’s New Mediasphere

Oleksii Poltorakov on:

Nadja Douglas, Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation

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Special Issue: Remembering Historical Diversity in East–Central European Cityscapes

Guest Editor: Eleonora Narvselius

Introduction. Remembering Historical Diversity in East-Central European Borderland Cities
Eleonora Narvselius

Urban Environment and Perished Populations in Chişinău, Chernivtsi, L’viv, and Wrocław: Historical Background and Memories Versus City Planning and Future Perspectives
Bo Larsson

Between Anonymity and Attachment: Remembering Others in Lviv’s Pidzamche District
Natalia Otrishchenko

On the Peripheries of Memory: Tracing the History of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław’s Urban Imaginary
Juliet D. Golden and Hana Cervinkova

Thinking Differently, Acting Separately? Heritage Discourse and Heritage Treatment in Chişinău
Anastasia Felcher

Myths and Monuments in the Collective Consciousness and Social Practice of Wrocław
Paweł Czajkowski

A Tangle of Memory: The EternitateMemorial Complex in Chişinău and History Politics in Moldova
Alexandr Voronovici

Patterns of Collective Memory: Socio-Cultural Diversity in Wrocław Urban Memory
Barbara Pabjan

Identificational and Attitudinal Trends in the Ukrainian–Romanian Borderland of Bukovina
Nadiia Bureiko and Teodor Lucian Moga

Reviews

Andrii Nekoliak on:

Uilleam Blacker, Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others

John M. Callahan on:

Alexander Gogun, Stalin’s Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front

Robert H. Greene on:

Vladlen Loginov, Vladimir Lenin: How to Become a Leader

Vinícius Silva Santana on:

Igor Torbakov, After Empire: Nationalist Imagination and Symbolic Politics in Russia and Eurasia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Angelo Vito Panaro on:

Andrea Cassani and Luca Tomini, Autocratization in Post-Cold War Political Regimes

George Kordas on:

Petar Cholakov, Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked: Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria

Elliot Dolan-Evans on:

Natalia Shapovalova and Olga Burlyuk (eds.), Civil Society in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Revolution to Consolidation

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Special Section: Russia’s Annexation of Crimea I

Guest Editors: Gergana Dimova and Andreas Umland

Legal Loopholes and Judicial Debates: Essays on Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea and Its Consequences for International Law
Gergana Dimova

The Obligation of Non-recognition: The Case of the Annexation of Crimea
Agata Kleczkowska

Russia’s Legal Position on the Annexation of Crimea
Dasha Dubinsky and Peter Rutland

Business as Usual: Sanctions Circumvention by Western Firms in Crimea
Maria Shagina - full text open-access version

https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050501_04

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The Return to Patriotic Education in Post-Soviet Russia: How, When, and Why the Russian Military Engaged in Civilian Nation Building
Håvard Bækken

Political Parties and the Institution of Membership in Ukraine
Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak

Reviews

Kiril Kolev on:
Ognian Shentov, Ruslan Stefanov and Martin Vladimirov, The Russian Economic Grip on Central and Eastern Europe

Ana-Maria Anghelescu on:
Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw, Dictators without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

Vera Rogova on:
Chris Miller, Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia

Elliot Dolan-Evans on:
Marci Shore, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution

Aleksandra Pomiecko on:
Lawrence Douglas, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and The Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial

Aija Lulle on:
Irene Kacandes and Yuliya Komska (eds.), Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries

This issue features the second installment in a series
of thematic sections dedicated to the history and memory
of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

Contents

Simon Schlegel:
Soviet Bureaucracy as a Category Coining Machine: Ethnicity, Ethnography, and the “Primordial Trap”

Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN II

Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk:
Introduction: Essays in the Historical Interpretation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

Ivan Gomza:
Catalytic Mobilization of Radical Ukrainian Nationalists in the Second Polish Republic: The Impact of Political Opportunity Structure

Igor Barinov:
Allies or Collaborators? The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Nazi Germany during the Occupation of Ukraine in 1941–43

Myroslav Shkandrij:
Volodymyr Viatrovych’s Second Polish–Ukrainian War

Correspondence
John-Paul Himka

Reviews

Serhy Yekelchyk on:
Christoph Mick, Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv, 1914–1947: Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City

Anika Walke on:
Leonid Rein, The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II

Christopher Gilley on:
Victoria Khiterer, Jewish Pogroms in Kiev during the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920

Yulia Oreshina on:
Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists

Maryna Rabinovych on:
Mikhail Minakov, Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Olga Gontarska on:
Sander Brouwer (ed.), Contested Interpretations of the Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film: Screen as Battlefield

Antony Kalashnikov on:
Shaun Walker, The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past

Karolina Koziura on:
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn (eds.), Communism and Hunger: the Ukrainian, Kazakh and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective

Contents

Andrey Makarychev and Nina Rozhanovskaya:
Introduction

Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk:
The Night Wolves’ Anti-Maidan and Cultural Representations of Russian Imperial Nationalism

Natalia Moussienko:
Cultural and Performative Dimensions of the Kyiv Maidan (2013–2014)

Oleksiy Krysenko:
Regional Political Regimes in Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Sergey Sukhankin:
Russian Regionalism in Action: The Case of the North-Western Federal District (1991–2017)

Oleksandr Potiekhin and Maryna Bessonova:
Ukrainian Attitudes toward the United States during the Russian Military Intervention

Victoria I. Zhuravleva:
Images of the United States in Putin’s Russia, from Obama to Trump

Roman Abramov:
New Trends in the Museumification of the Soviet Past in Russia (2008–2018)

Valentyna Kharkhun:
Museumification of the Soviet Past in the Context of Ukrainian Memory Politics

Kateryna Smagliy:
Ukraine’s Civil Society after the Euromaidan: Were Any Lessons Learned from the 2004 Orange Revolution?

Anna Arutunyan:
Agency in Russia: The Case for a Maturing Civil Society

The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., PhD). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. The first five issues to date have explored a diverse range of topics, including: Russian media coverage of the war in Ukraine; the experiences of Soviet Afghan war veterans in transnational perspective; discourses of memory and martyrdom in Eastern Europe; gender and anti-authoritarian protest in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine; violence in post-Soviet space; and agency in Belarusian history, politics, and society.

Contents

Andrew Wilson:
The Crimean Tatar Question: A Prism for Changing Nationalisms and Rival Versions of Eurasianism - full text open-access version

https://doi: 10.24216/97723645330050302_01

Alexander Etkind and Ilya Yablokov:
Global Crises as Western Conspiracies: Russian Theories on Oil Prices and the Ruble Exchange Rate

Natalia Samover:
She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, or a Note about the Soviet Dissident Bacronym “Sof’ia Vlas'evna”

Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN I

Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk:
Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Memory Politics, Public Debates, and Foreign Affairs

Per Anders Rudling:
The Bandera Cult in Ukraine and Canada

Yaroslav Hrytsak:
The Development of Ukrainian Memory Culture Post-1991: The Case of Stepan Bandera

Yuliya Yurchuk:
The Memory of Taras Bul’ba-Borovets’: A Regional Perspective on the Formation of the Founding Myth of the UPA

Łukasz Adamski:
Kyiv’s “Volhynian Negationism:” Reflections on the 2016 Polish–Ukrainian Memory Conflict

Reviews:

Alina Zubkovych on Serhii Plokhy;
Yuri Radchenko on Raz Segal;
Alla Marchenko on Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern;
Arkadi Zeltser on Anika Walke;
Galina Belokurova on Jennifer Suchland;
Geir Flikke on Aglaya Snetkov;

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE: A New Land

Felix Ackermann, Mark Berman and Olga Sasunkevich:
In Search of Agency: Examining Belarusian Society from Below

Alena Minchenia:
Behind the “Failed Revolution”: Becoming Patriots, or the Work
of Shame in Protesting Discourse in Belarus

Elena Gapova:
The Politics of the Belarusian Self: Performing Truth,
Converting in Public

Svetlana Poleschuk:
“Communication Explosion” in Authoritarian Minsk:
Public Lectures, Counterpublics, and Counterspaces

Photo-Essay

Andrei Liankevich:
Goodbye, Motherland!

Reviews
Tatsiana Chulitskaya on Paulina Pospieszna;
Felix Ackermann on Aliaksandr Dalhouski;
Lizaveta Kasmach on Dmitri Romanowski;
Małgorzata Ruchniewicz on Iryna Kashtalian and Rayk Einax;
Paul Hansbury on Margarita Balmaceda;
Tatsiana Astrouskaya on Per A. Rudling;
Tamara Zlobina on Irina Solomatina and Tat’iana Shchurko;
Evgenia Ivanova on Volha Piotukh;
Manne Wängborg on Evgeniy Chernyshev;
Olga Bertelsen on Daniel S. Hamilton and Stefan Meister;
Aijan Sharshenova on Martin Brusis, Joachim Ahrens and Martin Schulze Wessel;
Karolina Koziura on Jacek Kurczewski;

This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, in this space. Simultaneously the special issue aspires to situate these discourses and practices in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic and separatist conflict, and to examine these from political, legal, and security studies perspectives.
The issue approaches the problem of violence in the post-Soviet space from three perspectives: The international-structural, inter-state, and domestic-political. The contributors focus on structural sources of violence: The relevance of the self-determination principle, the role of democratization, and the relationship between violent behavior inside and outside the state. They also analyze the role of the Russian Federation in generating, perpetuating, and mitigating political violence. Finally, they adopt a bottom-up approach, exploring how non-state actors contribute to political violence.

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE: VIOLENCE IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

Introduction by Natasha Kuhrt and Marcin Kaczmarski

Anaïs Marin:
Does State Violence Translate into a More Bellicose Foreign Behavior? Domestic Predictors of International Conflict-Propensity in Post-Soviet Eurasia - full text open-access version

https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050202_02

Mischa Gabowitsch:
Russia’s Arlington? The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery near Moscow - full text open-access version

https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050202_04

Hanna Smith:
Threat Perceptions: Russia in the Post-Soviet Space
Danielle Jackman:
Partial Russian Justice in Chechnya: The Lapin Case, Anna Politkovskaya, and Transnational Activism

Review Article
Péter Marton and Annamária Kiss:
Chechen Combatants’ Involvement as Foreign Fighters in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq

Projects and Conferences
Olga Lebedeva:
Topography of Terror: Mapping Sites of Soviet Repressions in Moscow
Daria Mattingly and Elena Zezlina:
Conference Report: Places of Amnesia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Forgotten Pasts

Reviews
Vsevolod Samokhvalov on Rajan Menon and Eugene B. Rumer;
Kevork Oskanian on Ohannes Geukjian;
Rodric Braithwaite on Oleg V. Khlevniuk;
Kateryna Smagliy on Zuzanna Bogumił et al.;
Neil Robinson on Boris Minaev and Yeltsin Center;
Olga R. Gulina on Mark Bassin et al.;
David White on Vladimir Gel’man;
John B. Dunlop on David Satter;
Rasmus Nilsson on Marlene Laruelle;
Patrick M. Bell on Elizabeth A. Wood et al.;
Jokubas Salyga on Paul Hare and Gerard Turley

This special issue focuses on gender dynamics in protest movements that occur in patriarchal, authoritarian and semi-authoritarian societies. Themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted environments, intersections between feminism and nationalism, the relationship between nationality and sexuality, the question of political agency of non-mainstream groups in the context of protest activity, and the dilemmas of conducting qualitative research while participating in a protest.

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SPECIAL ISSUE: GENDER, NATIONALISM, AND CITIZENSHIP IN ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN PROTESTS IN BELARUS, RUSSIA, AND UKRAINE

Introduction by Olesya Khromeychuk - full text open-access version

Articles
Olesya Khromeychuk:
Negotiating Protest Spaces on the Maidan: a Gender Perspective
Tamara Martsenyuk:
Sexuality and Revolution in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Human Rights for the LGBT Community in the Euromaidan Protests of 2013-2014
Darya Malyutina:
Ethical Concerns in Activist Ethnography: the Case of Ukrainian Protest Activism in London and a Russian Female Researcher
Evgenia Ivanova:
Between Being Witty and Being Pretty: Paradoxes of Female Political Participation in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
Olenka Dmytryk:
“I’m a Feminist, Therefore…”: the Art of Gender and Sexual Dissent in 2010s Ukraine and Russia
Nadia Plungian:
Feminist Art in Russia in 2014–15: the Problem of the “Turn to the Right”

Interview
“Wait a Minute, You’re a Woman!”.
Interview with Maria Berlins’ka

Review Article
Iryna Kosovs’ka:
Women at War

Reviews
Cai Wilkinson on Francesca Stella;
Katherine Bowers on Jenny Kaminer;
Catherine Baker on Stephen Amico;
Laura A. Dean on Irina Mukhina;
Dafna Rachok on Marian J. Rubchak;
Connor Doak on Russell Scott Valentino;
Rustam Gadzhiev on Valerie Sperling;
Anna Shadrina on Jennifer Utrata;
Anders Åslund on Steven Lee Myers;
Shahram Akbarzadeh on Thomas W Simons, Jr;
Ulrike Gerhardt on Ieva Astahovska et al.

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world.

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE: BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN

Felix Ackermann and Michael Galbas:
Back from Afghanistan: Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans in Transnational Perspective
Yaacov Ro'i:
The Varied Reintegration of Afghan War Veterans in Their Home Society
Markus Göransson:
A Fragile Movement: Afghan War Veterans and the Soviet Collapse in Tajikistan, 1979–92
Michael Galbas:
“Our Pain and Our Glory”: Strategies of Legitimization and Functionalization of the Soviet–Afghan War in the Russian Federation
Iryna Sklokina:
Veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War and the Ukrainian Nation-Building Project: From Perestroika to the Maidan and the War in the Donbas
Jan C. Behrends:
Post-Soviet Legacies of Afghanistan: A Comparative Perspective
Anna Reich:
Faces of the Lithuanian Afghanai

SPECIAL ISSUE: MARTYRDOM AND MEMORY IN EASTERN EUROPE

Uilleam Blacker and Julie Fedor:
Soviet and Post-Soviet Varieties of Martyrdom and Memory - full text open-access version

https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050102_08

Jay Winter:
War and Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century and After
Uilleam Blacker:
Martyrdom, Spectacle, and Public Space in Ukraine: Ukraine’s National Martyrology from Shevchenko to the Maidan
Sander Brouwer:
The Eternal Martyr: Karen Shakhnazarov’s White Tiger as a
Cinematic Reflection on Russian Martyrdom
Maria Mälksoo:
In Search of a Modern Mnemonic Narrative of Communism: Russia’s Mnemopolitical Mimesis during the Medvedev Presidency
Iryna Starovoyt:
Holodomor, Amnesia, and Memory-(Re)Making in Post-War Ukrainian Literature and Film
Simon Lewis:
Overcoming Hegemonic Martyrdom: The Afterlife of Khatyn in Belarusian Memory

Review Essays:
De-Mythologizing Bandera by André Härtel, Yuri Radchenko, Oleksandr Zaitsev

Reviews:
Karen Petrone on Nataliya Danilova; Philipp Casula on Rodric Braithwaite; Elena Rozhdestvenskaya on E. S. Seniavskaia;
Ivan Kurilla on Polly Jones;
Olga Sasunkevich on Violeta Davoliūtė;
Sergei Akopov on Olga Malinova

The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia and beyond.
This special issue sets out to launch an interdisciplinary discussion on the Russian information warfare being waged in parallel with the military war in Ukraine.
How is the war being packaged and narrated for domestic and international audiences? How are these narratives being received in Russia and in the West? What new trends can be observed in the identification and construction of 'enemies'? How do we interpret and explain the imperial hysteria and hatred currently on display on Russian TV? What are the appropriate responses? How can we avoid the trap of allowing Kremlin propagandists to shape the terms and language in which the war is viewed?

Contents

Julie Fedor:
Introduction: Russian Media and the War in Ukraine - full text open-access version
Edwin Bacon:
Putin’s Crimea Speech, 18 March 2014: Russia’s Changing Public Political Narrative
Rolf Fredheim:
Filtering Foreign Media Content: How Russian News Agencies Repurpose Western News Reporting
Tatiana Riabova and Oleg Riabov:
“Gayromaidan”: Gendered Aspects of the Hegemonic Russian Media Discourse on the Ukrainian Crisis
Alexandr Osipian:
Historical Myths, Enemy Images, and Regional Identity in the Donbass Insurgency (Spring 2014)
Elizaveta Gaufman:
Memory, Media, and Securitization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya:
Combating the Russian State Propaganda Machine: Strategies of Information Resistance
Nikolay Mitrokhin:
Infiltration, Instruction, Invasion: Russia’s War in the Donbass - full text open-access version

Ukraine and the Global Information War: Panel Discussion and Forum
Featuring:
Anne Applebaum; Margarita Akhvlediani; Sabra Ayres; Renaud de la Brosse; Rory Finnin; James Marson; Sarah Oates; Simon Ostrovsky; Kevin M. F. Platt; Peter Pomerantsev; Natalia Rulyova; Michael Weiss; Maksym Yakovlyev; Vera Zvereva

Reviews:
Rasmus Nilsson on Andrew Wilson and Richard Sakwa;
Anders Åslund on Karen Dawisha;
Mykola Riabchuk on David Marples/Frederick Mills